Photomanipulation: Honorable Mention 2022 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A surreal photo collage which deconstructs the human body and challenges established notions of beauty and identity. The collage also tackles issues such as the supposed indexicality and "truthfulness" of the photographic medium and raises questions regarding the appropriation and (ab)use of imagery.
AUTHOR
Kon Markogiannis is an experimental photographer-visual artist with an interest in themes such as memory, mortality, spirituality, the human condition, the exploration of the human psyche and the evolution of consciousness. He embraces the indexical qualities of photography and its immediate impact on the viewer, but what he is mainly concerned with are the ways “reality” can be transformed. By manipulating the photographic medium and/or combining it with other media he is able to develop a personal and simultaneously transpersonal language which negotiates between subjective art and the photographic document. He sees his work as a kind of weapon against the ephemeral or, as Vilém Flusser would say (Towards a Philosophy of Photography), a “hunt for new states of things”.
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